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Sony ICF10 Mark 2 on sale at Walgreen's

I have one of these. Have not found it to be particularly good for DXing.
 
Good for a cheap radio, but if you are looking for a small portable DX radio I would recommend spending a bit more and getting something with a digital display and a DSP like a Tecsun radio.
 
spunker88 said:
Good for a cheap radio, but if you are looking for a small portable DX radio I would recommend spending a bit more and getting something with a digital display and a DSP like a Tecsun radio.
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I LOVE my Tecsun PL-606.....Very small and extremely sensitive and uber-selective on BOTH AM and FM. Also covers LW and SW. An unbelievable radio for about $50.
 
The ICF-10Mk2 is rather insensitive to AM, and its circuitry makes a funny gravely sound when tuned to no station on AM.
 
There seems to be no mention of how the AM or FM tunes.
Does it tune continuously, which would allow side tuning to avoid an iboc mess on sideband of an AM signal?
Is the IF bandwidth on the AM muddy or wideband of at least 20 khx, which allows hearing the 10kc whistle?

IF it just stops on sprecific steps, it could still be OK if the steps sare small enough.

If it only stops on 10 khz spacing on AM, it's another radioemulator as opposed to a radio.

A gritty noise may mean some kind of weird superhet stage with square wave mixer instead of sine wave mixer.
 
Tom Wells said:
There seems to be no mention of how the AM or FM tunes.
Does it tune continuously, which would allow side tuning to avoid an iboc mess on sideband of an AM signal?
Is the IF bandwidth on the AM muddy or wideband of at least 20 khx, which allows hearing the 10kc whistle?

IF it just stops on sprecific steps, it could still be OK if the steps sare small enough.

If it only stops on 10 khz spacing on AM, it's another radioemulator as opposed to a radio.

A gritty noise may mean some kind of weird superhet stage with square wave mixer instead of sine wave mixer.
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The SRF-59 is analog tuned. There is a digital version using the same advanced chip - I think it is the SRF-84 - that tunes digitally. In order to achieve the high selectivity, the SRF-59 has narrow IF bandwidth which sacrifices wide audio response on AM.
 
I have one of these also. This is a very poor choice for AM BCB DXing in my opinion. Mine also has the gritty sound between stations. I have tried to analyze what is going on and I think there is some sort of self-oscillation in the IF section due to a poor PCB layout, or wrong value components. I have not been able to track it down to any specific cause. If anyone else that has one is able to figure out what the problem is, I'd appreciate hearing from you.

This is an update of the ICF10 that was a reasonably decent set. I had taken mine on trips into the BC back country and it did pretty well especially when attached to a 100 foot longwire antenna. The FM reception was OK but not extraordinary.
 
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